Amelia Smith Rinehart is a Professor of Law and the former William J. Maier, Jr. Dean of the West Virginia University College of Law (2021-2025). She was previously the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, whose faculty she joined in 2010 following two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Florida State University.

Dean Rinehart received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2002. She received a Master of Science in biomedical engineering from Tulane University in 1997, and a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering, summa cum laude, with Departmental Honors from Tulane University in 1996.